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What traditions have you not kept that your parents had? Love traditions. I have followed a ton of them and added a few more so my future generations can pick and choose. That said let me narrate a story my paternal grandmother used to tell us. In India a death anniversary is celebrated with priests…
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Was today typical? I would say “yes” and “no”. My young man decided to take some cat naps. We had to skip his music class just because he was napping! Yes, the comfort of having an understanding teacher or the fear of waking a sleeping giant. I had some extra time on hand and decided…
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How would you describe yourself to someone? If you want to know about me then check my “about me” page. Okay, I love humor and I can take things lightly. My dad and his siblings had and have a sense of humor and I think that is a good quality. Off late I am becoming…
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I wanted to do a picnic today as we had harvested some tomatoes. I wanted to make tomato rice and eating at home was not an option for me. A little bit of research we found a great picnic spot at one of National Park’s Memorial sites. Johnston Flood National Memorial is the place a…
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I hear thunderstorms rumbling but there is no rain. The past few days I have been blogging from a bleacher near Casey’ Clubhouse, a baseball field for Special people. I am enjoying this. Once fall rolls in I may not be able to do it. There are days I am really happy for the world.…
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If you won two free plane tickets, where would you go? I would like to use the two free tickets to go to Los Angeles. Not now but during Olympics. Yes, kind of a rain check tickets in 2028. One ticket is for me and the other for my younger son who loves sports. Yes,…
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I am not complaining about the hot weather but it took a toll with my young man loosing sleep last night. Loosing sleep now a days is few compared to many in the past. Even if he is up he doesn’t disturb us much. But if it happens on a week day the routine gets…
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The past two days has been hot. Me and my young man got the opportunity to prepare the snack that needs sunlight to dry up. The 90 degree sun was not wasted a bit. A well wisher had suggested we make the same inside the garage and move it outside instead of doing it directly…
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Esther Chilton’s writing prompt this week is faith. Faith is something close to my heart and here it is. I have always been religious but the faith gets tested so many times. It is my second attempt at learning Sundara Kandam. A section of the epic Ramayana. I am attending a class learning meaning and…
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What are your future travel plans? If you have been following my blog you would know we travel a lot and now we are into all National parks and sites. So our next one will be to one of these places only 😀. My special young man loves to travel and I think at his…
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This is a vegetable not favorable for many. In India we call it brinjal and in my home only the green variety was purchased. Oh growing up it was my favorite. When I moved to the US, I learnt it as eggplant and we used to get the huge ones in the American grocery store.…
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Every year I make வடாம் (vadaam). A rice snack that is sun dried and can be stored boxes to be deep fried later. This year I have not found time to do the same. I did travel and also the weather was not perfect. More rainy days than normal. I heard someone talking today that…
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What do you listen to while you work? I do not have a desk job. My job is around the house and with my special young man. My young man loves music so he has his tablet and headphones and keeps listening to something. With his OCD it maybe the same thing and I do…
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What’s your go-to comfort food? It was National Ice cream 🍨 day today. We went to an ice cream shop to see if there were any specials but nothing unless you order in their app. I really do not have a sweet tooth but off late I am craving strawberry ice cream as my comfort…
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We checked off our 8th National Park yesterday. We have been there twice before when the kids were young. Since we started the quest of visiting all 63 parks we needed to visit it again. But this time it was more of walking a trail instead of just riding a train and of course getting…
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What’s your favorite game (card, board, video, etc.)? Why? My special one loves carrying cards. Anything from flash cards to credit cards we had a whole box full of them. That was his (or still?) a sensory thing. Yup, we soon found out any card game or board game would not work for us. All…
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What foods would you like to make? Food posts get a lot of views. I cook and I teach my young man to cook. So a different answer to the same prompt.😀 I love to cook one pot easy meals. My better half encourages since there is not much in the sink to clean at…
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Dogs or cats? It is cats 🐈 of course. Is it because I grew up with cats or I saw Garfield movie yesterday? 🤔 It was a free summer movie at Phoenix Theater yesterday but we did spend money for snacks. I thought me and my young man would burn some calories we added after…
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Which activities make you lose track of time? An activity that I do not look at my watch? My day is filled with alarm and timers for one thing or another. My young man is on a schedule and he is good on it. So life does not give me a choice. But I would…
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What bothers you and why? It really bothers me when people say “in those olden days or in my childhood we didn’t have this or that”. Of course I too try to remember those days when we didn’t have internet nor a phone that would do all. I force my kids to use pen and…
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